Symbol & Emoji Library

Bracket Symbols

Paired brackets, braces and ornamental frames.

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Short answer

Paired brackets, braces and ornamental frames for wrapping text. These are the safest decoration on the site, because your words stay ordinary searchable characters.

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Where these characters come from

Beyond the ASCII brackets, Unicode encodes CJK bracket forms for East Asian typesetting and a set of ornamental brackets from Dingbats. The decorative frames popular in gaming handles come from the Tibetan and Javanese blocks, where they are genuine punctuation rather than ornament.

How reliably they render

ASCII and CJK brackets are entirely safe. The ornamental frames borrowed from other scripts are the least reliable characters on this page and frequently show as boxes on phones.

Questions

Which decorative frames are risky?

The ornamental frames borrowed from Tibetan and Javanese are genuine punctuation in those scripts and are frequently absent from phone fonts. They are the least reliable characters on this page.

Do brackets count against character limits?

Yes, every one. A decorative frame of four characters costs four characters, which is a meaningful share of a game name field or a short bio.

Code points and HTML entities

Char	Code point	HTML	CSS
(	`U+0028`	`(`	`\28`
)	`U+0029`	`)`	`\29`
[	`U+005B`	`[`	`\5B`
]	`U+005D`	`]`	`\5D`
{	`U+007B`	`{`	`\7B`
}	`U+007D`	`}`	`\7D`
⟨	`U+27E8`	`⟨`	`\27E8`
⟩	`U+27E9`	`⟩`	`\27E9`
⟪	`U+27EA`	`⟪`	`\27EA`
⟫	`U+27EB`	`⟫`	`\27EB`
⟮	`U+27EE`	`⟮`	`\27EE`
⟯	`U+27EF`	`⟯`	`\27EF`
⦅	`U+2985`	`⦅`	`\2985`
⦆	`U+2986`	`⦆`	`\2986`
〈	`U+3008`	`〈`	`\3008`
〉	`U+3009`	`〉`	`\3009`
《	`U+300A`	`《`	`\300A`
》	`U+300B`	`》`	`\300B`
「	`U+300C`	`「`	`\300C`
」	`U+300D`	`」`	`\300D`
『	`U+300E`	`『`	`\300E`
』	`U+300F`	`』`	`\300F`
【	`U+3010`	`【`	`\3010`
】	`U+3011`	`】`	`\3011`
〔	`U+3014`	`〔`	`\3014`
〕	`U+3015`	`〕`	`\3015`
〖	`U+3016`	`〖`	`\3016`
〗	`U+3017`	`〗`	`\3017`
〘	`U+3018`	`〘`	`\3018`
〙	`U+3019`	`〙`	`\3019`
〚	`U+301A`	`〚`	`\301A`
〛	`U+301B`	`〛`	`\301B`

Showing the first 32 of 54 characters. Every character in the grid above is clickable to copy, whether or not it appears in this table.

Clan TagsShort bracketed tags for gaming names.Punctuation SymbolsDashes, quotes, dots and editorial marks.

Sources

Unicode Standard, Enclosed Alphanumerics (U+2460–U+24FF)
The circled and parenthesised letters behind the bubble styles.
Unicode Consortium — Code Charts
The official code charts for every block referenced here.

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